What can’t be seen also can’t be protected. That’s why NetScout Systems Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. have teamed up to provide customers with a networking security feature to improve security.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic Mirroring enables AWS customers to replicate network traffic from an EC2 instance and forward it to security appliances for inspection and threat monitoring.

“It demonstrates how we use this technology alliance to extend NetScout visibility without borders to AWS cloud,” said Michael Segal (pictured), area vice president of strategic alliances at NetScout. “That’s why it’s really important for us to collaborate efficiently with AWS; it’s important to our customers, and it’s important to AWS.”

Segal spoke with Peter Burris (@plburris), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, in Palo Alto, California. They discussed use of traffic monitoring to bolster security and how customers benefit from the AWS and NetScout partnership. (* Disclosure below.)

Looking for intrusions

AWS and NetScout announced VPN traffic mirroring in June, and the feature received a boost from the news earlier this month that PropertyRoom.com would use both firms for management and security of its hybrid cloud. Unusual traffic patterns could indicate a compromised instance or a network intrusion.

“NetScout assures service performance and security for the largest enterprises and service providers in the world,” Segal noted. “We do it through visibility without borders by providing actionable intelligence necessary to very quickly identify the root cause of either performance or security issues.”

It’s all part of NetScout’s broader effort to gain and extend insights in a shifting world of IT operations, now decentralized as more and more business activity occurs at the edge of the network. To this end, NetScout partners with AWS on a wide range of “visibility without borders” security solutions. One such offering is Application Performance Management, which uses smart data technology to distill real-time intelligence from connected applications and services.

“From a customer’s perspective, beyond the fact that the NetScout offering is already available in the AWS Marketplace, this visibility without borders helps our customers navigate through their digital transformation journey and migrate to AWS more effectively,” Segal stated.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations. (* Disclosure: NetScout Systems Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither NetScout nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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